Lesson 8. Grammar Item #4

I do not like cleaning a room.

· I do not like video games à

わたしは　ビデオ・ゲームが　すきじゃ　ありません。

· clean a room [in the plain style] à

へやを　そうじする（s [‘to do’]-ru à suru）

N.B. You cannot use the /ite/-phrase of へやをそうじして as the object of the adjective plus be ‘suki-desu’ since an /ite/-phrase cannot be noun, but is a phrase modifying a predicate, i.e., working as an adverb.

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Japanese uses a noun の ‘one’, [as used in あかいのを ください ‘Please give red one’], the meaning of which is the least amount, to express ‘doing something’, as below:

へやを　そうじする の

clean room one

This phrase as a whole is NOUN.

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１）わたしは　へやを　そうじするのが　すきじゃ　ありません。

a) I think that Mary is good at driving a car.

b) The Professor likes singing, taking a bath.

c) I am poor at washing a car.